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Esther 1:20
When the king’s decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small.”

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Ephesians 5:22
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Ephesians 5:23
For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

Ephesians 5:24
But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

Colossians 3:18
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

1 Peter 3:1
In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,

Genesis 3:16
To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

1 Corinthians 14:34
Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,

1 Corinthians 11:3
But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

1 Timothy 2:11
Let a woman learn in quietness with full submission.

1 Timothy 2:12
But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

Titus 2:5
to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

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Esther 1:12
But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his anger burned in him.

Esther 1:19
“If it pleases the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she.

Esther 1:22
for he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, that every man should rule his own house, speaking in the language of his own people.

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Esther 1:16
Memucan answered before the king and the princes, “Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus.

Esther 1:17
For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands when it is reported, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn’t come.’

Esther 1:18
Today, the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s deed will tell all the king’s princes. This will cause much contempt and wrath.

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Esther 1:1
Now in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one hundred twenty-seven provinces),

Esther 1:7
They gave them drinks in golden vessels of various kinds, including royal wine in abundance, according to the bounty of the king.

Esther 1:9
Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to King Ahasuerus.

Esther 1:13
Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times (for it was the king’s custom to consult those who knew law and judgment;

Esther 1:14
and next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom),

Esther 1:15
“What shall we do to Queen Vashti according to law, because she has not done the bidding of the King Ahasuerus by the eunuchs?”

Esther 1:21
This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of Memucan:

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Ecclesiastes 8:11
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

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Titus 2:4
that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,

Proverbs 31:27
She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness.

1 Corinthians 7:10
But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

1 Timothy 3:11
Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.

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1 Peter 3:2
seeing your pure behavior in fear.

1 Peter 3:3
Let your beauty come not from the outward adorning of braiding your hair, and of wearing gold ornaments or of putting on fine clothing,

1 Peter 3:4
but from the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in God’s sight.

1 Peter 3:5
For this is how in the past the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.

1 Peter 3:6
So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are if you do well and are not put in fear by any terror.

1 Peter 3:7
You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

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Numbers 30:7
and her husband hears it, and says nothing to her in the day that he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her pledges with which she has bound her soul shall stand.

Numbers 30:8
But if her husband forbids her in the day that he hears it, then he makes void her vow which is on her and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul. Yahweh will forgive her.

Numbers 30:13
Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

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